Divine Wisdom in the Temples of Egypt

By NORAH ROMNEY

Egypt's temples are the temporary residence of the Neter and the location of its mysteries. "Mysteries" refers to the complete knowledge of the Neter's powers and manifestations, as well as how this knowledge is accessed by those connected to it. Among the reports of ancient travelers, we find references to the mysteries practiced in Egyptian temples. Although the activities were universally known, only those qualified to participate had access to knowledge and practice about them. A lengthy period of study at the Per Neter was required as well as a period of service dedicated to the temple only.

• Language: English
• Publisher: DTTV PUBLICATIONS
• Release date: Mar 28, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201826475

NORAH ROMNEY

Norah Romney is a Maori- Inuit ambassador with lineage to both cultures, she was orphaned early in her life losing both parents in a plane crash in the Pacific, she was adopted in the UK to  a family of archaeologists, anthropologists, historians, and folklorists. She is the first woman to be appointed as a lecturer in ethno-archaeology, and cultural folklorist as ambassador to to the Inuit's, she has spoken vastly on Maori traditions in 74 nations. Adopted into a wealthy middle-class English family in the United Kingdom, she sees herself as a global citizen with diverse roots, Having achieved Egyptology and Mesoamerican Qualifications her focus is now on Global Mythologies and their insight into ancient civilizations.

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Divine Wisdom

in the

Temples of Egypt

Decoding Ancient

Esoteric Mysteries

EZRA IVANOV

TODAY, THE INHABITANTS of Edfu, in Upper Egypt, believe the ancient sanctuary still possesses mystic powers. Villagers who hope to have children have entered the temple at night. They circle the altar within the shrine seven times and leave, confident that their barrenness will disappear.

As a predominantly Muslim village today, Edfu represents a universal truth that transcends all cultures that never fade away from the magic of a house of spirituality. Ancient Egyptians did not have a variant for this feeling, and it is expressed in a variety of ways through the Per Neter, the Divine House. In the temple, we are moved to experience and communicate with something larger than ourselves, to grasp and comprehend what eludes our conscious comprehension.

Egypt’s temples are the temporary residence of the Neter and the location of its mysteries. Mysteries refers to the complete knowledge of the Neter’s powers and manifestations, as well as how this knowledge is accessed by those connected to it. Among the reports of ancient travelers, we find references to the mysteries practiced in Egyptian temples. Although the activities were universally known, only those qualified to participate had access to knowledge and practice about them. A lengthy period of study at the Per Neter was required as well as a period of service dedicated to the temple only:

Neter’s mysteries were based on fixing its presence into a consecrated precinct and honoring it through continuous divine rituals. In the periodic episodes in which the Neter appeared according to the Sacred Astronomy and in the festivals commemorating significant mythic events, the evocation and maintenance of the divine presence made its power accessible to both clergy and laity. Even though the scheme appears simple, these basic activities were intricately choreographed through the application of the Sacred Science in a defined way. These principles were grounded in natural philosophy and science. To further this pursuit of communing with divine life, it was recognized that the constitution of a sacred space was foremost necessary. The nature of Neter would be reflected in every way possible in this space.

Since the temple embodies all of divine life on a macrocosmic scale, it reflects the sublime qualities of divine regions in the physical world. The soaring columns of the temple’s hypostyle Hall, which leads celebrants into the environment of the Neteru, embody the sacred marshes of time.

Auxiliary chambers and the Hall of Records in the temple reflect the majestic halls of the Duat. The divine genealogy of royal persons and thus humanity was recorded here. Additionally, the sacred mound on which the ancients rested at the dawn of time is in the temple’s sanctuary. In this sanctuary lies the naos where the Neter rests.

As a microcosm of the universe, the temple represents a human cosmos. The temple possesses skeletal, circulatory, and organic systems rendered in building materials within this dimension. The Neter’s vital principle is transmitted to those who enter its house via these systems. Through these daily rituals, the Neter becomes part of the living on Earth, partaking of sustenance. Through ceremonial events, he also shares in the drama of human life.

Ancient temples in Egypt today reflect architectural styles from the Old, Middle, and New Kingdom and the Late Period, and the Greco-Roman period. Despite superficial differences, certain features are consistent, such as the division between the outer and inner courts and subterranean and roof chambers. De Lubicz found that the Egyptian temple had a vast array of subtle features. He regarded sacred building design as architecture that shows the existence of a complex yet intentionally employed knowledge of sacred building design. Its purpose was to create a mechanism that would allow the two worlds-sky and earth-to exchange information and experience in harmony and consciously.

The fundamental premise of architectural design is that sacred space has many dimensions beyond the physical. Symbolist philosophy identifies four dimensions and their reference points as the subtle tools employed in the design of the Divine House. The authors of each chapter explain several inexplicable aspects of Per Neter and explain its esoteric features. De Lubicz defines them as:

This is the seed plan of the temple. The number determines the size and shape of the temple.

This dimension delimits the temple’s physical area, boundaries, and physical features.

The temple’s orientation is determined by time, thus its symbiosis. Orientation of the temple was based on two systems, terrestrial and celestial. Solar, Lunar, and Stellar points were employed for the former, the Nile for the latter. This dimension invites the fusion of celestial and earthly, physical and nonphysical forces at cosmically opportune times. This is the purpose of the temple.

Geometry: This determines the shape of the temple, therefore, its harmony. The geometry determines how the temple will grow. At the temple, two aspects of sacred geometry are ever-present: the circle and the square. There has been much written about the sacred geometry employed in the design of Egyptian monuments, but rarely in the other reference points that provide additional dimensions and insight into the building and its use. Many of these can be found using the two irrational number roots, pi (3.14159) and phi(1.6180339) or the Golden Section.

This volume expresses the meaning of the temple and thus its experience. There is still in this dimension what de Lubicz calls volume forms, symbols of the five regular solids, the four elements, and their binding force, the quintessence. It applies to this dimension to use certain building materials that evoke specific associations with elemental forces. The temple’s volume defines its purpose.

The land of Egypt was revered as a mirror of the divine regions, as we have seen. According to the protocol of the celestial sphere and the associations of the Neteru with natural phenomena, its divisions and the locations of its important religious, political, and funerary cities were determined.

From the beginning, Egypt was divided into the northern and southern halves, or Lower and Upper Egypt. As the most comprehensive ancient milieu, these locations, designs, and functions embodied the Sacred Science. These characteristics have been inscribed and recorded for millennia in Egypt’s temples.

The Nile’s movement from upstream in the south to downstream in the north was discussed.

The river empties low into a deep valley in the southern region. It branched into seven branches that formed the verdant Delta region in ancient times. As the capital of the unified Two Lands, Memphis established the eastern and western divisions of the